If you spell the username correctly, the user will be alerted that you quoted him or her. I often copy+paste to username to make sure it's right and I didn't make a typo.

A few people have quoted me this way and hasn't shown up in my notifications, I think you need to include "post id" by clicking the quote button in the top right hand corner of the post you're quoting, to get that blue hyperlink:

NonZeroSum wrote:
A few people have quoted me this way and hasn't shown up in my notifications, I think you need to include "post id" by clicking the quote button in the top right hand corner of the post you're quoting, to get that blue hyperlink:

Aha. It might be the user_id part that makes it show up.

Let me know if you got an alert from this one, I took out everything else:

NonZeroSum wrote:
A few people have quoted me this way and hasn't shown up in my notifications, I think you need to include "post id" by clicking the quote button in the top right hand corner of the post you're quoting, to get that blue hyperlink:

Aha. It might be the user_id part that makes it show up.

Let me know if you got an alert from this one, I took out everything else: